<div dir="ltr">Doug,<div><br></div><div>Just a FYI, the README cron format is incorrect, it should be minutes hours (30 20 * *), you have it hours minutes (20 30 * *)</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Cheers,<br>Joel<br>W0KGW<br></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 6:03 PM, Doug Crompton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:doug@crompton.com" target="_blank">doug@crompton.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div><div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000" face="Tahoma,sans-serif">If you try to run a script or program in Linux and you are in the directory when it resides it will not run unless you precede the name with ./ - so ./playnews .... should work. You could also use the complete path which is what you would do if you were trying to run it in a cron job or if you were in another directory.<br><br>The file should have proper permission... if not - chmod 750 playnews<br></font><span class=""><br><br><b><font style="font-size:16pt" size="4">73 Doug</font><font style="font-size:16pt" size="4"><br></font><font style="font-size:16pt" size="4">WA3DSP</font><font style="font-size:16pt" size="4"><br></font><font style="font-size:16pt" size="4"><a href="http://www.crompton.com/hamradio" target="_blank">http://www.crompton.com/hamradio</a></font></b><font style="font-size:16pt" size="4"><br></font><br><br></span><div><hr>From: <a href="mailto:ka5iid@swbell.net" target="_blank">ka5iid@swbell.net</a><br>Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2015 17:37:21 -0500<br>To: <a href="mailto:arm-allstar@hamvoip.org" target="_blank">arm-allstar@hamvoip.org</a><br>Subject: Re: [arm-allstar] playnews-0.6<div><div class="h5"><br><br><div>Doug, have the playnews file in the /etc/asterisk/local/playnews directory and did the rename to remove the -0.6. ls shows it there. When I try and run playnews ARRL NOW L it states -bash: playnews: command not found</div><div><br></div><div>What am I missing, permissions maybe?<br><br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>On Aug 30, 2015, at 11:01 PM, Doug Crompton <<a href="mailto:doug@crompton.com" target="_blank">doug@crompton.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote><div>
<div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000" face="Tahoma,sans-serif">I put a new version of playnews up on <a href="http://hamvoip.org" target="_blank">hamvoip.org</a> in the howto section. It includes a request for playing now in console mode. This is useful if you want to get everything ready to play and manually hit a key to start it.<br><br><a href="http://hamvoip.org/downloads/playnews-0.6.tar.gz" target="_blank">http://hamvoip.org/downloads/playnews-0.6.tar.gz</a><br><br>Changes from 0.5<br><br> - If you enter "now" for the time it will download and process the files, skip the pre-warnings, wait for any key to be pressed and play the news.<br><br> - The node number must be entered.<br><br> - An optional last parameter L|G for local or global play can be entered. If omitted playback is global.<br><br>I recommend making a directory "playnews" in /etc/asterisk/local cd to that directory and untar the files there.<br><br>Rename playnews-0.6 to playnews once extracted.<br><br>If the files are not placed in /etc/asterisk/local/playnews you must specify the location in the VOICEDIR variable in the script.<br><br> v0.6 updates<br><br> - Now requires that all parameters be entered except<br> mode which defaults to global if not entered<br> - More parameter checking added<br> - Time can be set to "NOW" for immediate start<br><br> Command line format - playnews ARRL|ARN 21:00|NOW 40000 L|G<br> <br> Options are ARRL or ARN news, specific 24 hour time or "NOW"<br> and local "L" or Global "G" play modes.<br><br> DO NOT use the the "NOW" time parameter in a cron !!!<br><br></font><font face="Tahoma,sans-serif">Read the complete README file in the archive and also in the beginning of the script.</font><br><br><b><font style="font-size:16pt" size="4">73 Doug</font><font style="font-size:16pt" size="4"><br></font><font style="font-size:16pt" size="4">WA3DSP</font><font style="font-size:16pt" size="4"><br></font><font style="font-size:16pt" size="4"><a href="http://www.crompton.com/hamradio" target="_blank">http://www.crompton.com/hamradio</a></font></b><font style="font-size:16pt" size="4"><br></font> </div>
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